Bringing Rationality Back: Social Identity Meets Rational Choice in Ethnic Bloc Voting Behavior in Turkey

• In Event: The Politics of Ethnicity and Marginalization in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

In the case of an ethnic minority (Kurds in Turkey) facing cross-cutting incentives in elections, although bloc voting and social identity play a role, strategic coordination of groups at the communal level leads to volatile bloc voting.

Authors

• Cora Caton, University of Kansas

• Michael Wuthrich, University of Kansas

• Clayton Webb, University of Kansas